The School of Architecture requires undergraduate majors to take design studio courses in their junior year to meet the independent research requirement. In one studio, students, including Alejandro Arroyo Yamin, above, are studying and designing pavilions.

Working in pairs, the students selected a pavilion to analyze in terms of structure, material, tectonics and relationship to the environment and the ground. They chose from pavilions that have been a part of an annual project by the Serpentine Gallery in London in which an architect who has never built in England before is invited to design a pavilion for the summer.

This project served as the class's semester midterm. During the second part of the semester, students are designing their own pavilion.